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    Calypso music originated in Trinidad and is rooted in West African traditions, blending with European folk music introduced by British, French, and Spanish colonizers. It has a rhythmic but melodic sound typically featuring guitar, banjo, and percussion. Traditional calypso lyrics comment subtly on current political events through clever wordplay. The genre became internationally popular in the 1950s when Harry Belafonte's recordings introduced calypso to American audiences, though some saw his versions as less authentic than the original Trinidadian style.

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    Calypso music originated in Trinidad and is rooted in West African traditions, blending with European folk music introduced by British, French, and Spanish colonizers. It has a rhythmic but melodic sound typically featuring guitar, banjo, and percussion. Traditional calypso lyrics comment subtly on current political events through clever wordplay. The genre became internationally popular in the 1950s when Harry Belafonte's recordings introduced calypso to American audiences, though some saw his versions as less authentic than the original Trinidadian style.

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    Calypso music originated in Trinidad and is rooted in West African traditions, blending with European folk music introduced by British, French, and Spanish colonizers. It has a rhythmic but melodic sound typically featuring guitar, banjo, and percussion. Traditional calypso lyrics comment subtly on current political events through clever wordplay. The genre became internationally popular in the 1950s when Harry Belafonte's recordings introduced calypso to American audiences, though some saw his versions as less authentic than the original Trinidadian style.

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    Calypso Music

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    Weng Wongsisi
    Calypso music originated in Trinidad and is rooted in West African traditions, blending with European folk music introduced by British, French, and Spanish colonizers. It has a rhythmic but melodic sound typically featuring guitar, banjo, and percussion. Traditional calypso lyrics comment subtly on current political events through clever wordplay. The genre became internationally popular in the 1950s when Harry Belafonte's recordings introduced calypso to American audiences, though some saw his versions as less authentic than the original Trinidadian style.

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    Calypso Music

    The Roots of Calypso Music:


    Calypso is a genre of Afro-Caribbean
    music that comes primarily from the
    island of Trinidad (though calypso is
    found throughout the Caribbean). Like
    most genres of Caribbean music,
    calypso is heavily rooted in West
    African traditional music, and was
    originally used as a means of
    communication between slaves, as
    well as a form of entertainment.

    The Sound of Calypso Music:


    Because Trinidad was, over time, ruled by
    the British, the French and the Spanish,
    the African rhythms that form the roots
    of Calypso music blended with the
    European folk music of all of these
    places to give us the heavily rhythmic
    but still pleasantly melodic sound that
    we now recognize as Calypso. Calypso is
    generally played on folk instruments,
    including the guitar, banjo and various
    types of percussion.

    Calypso Lyrics:
    The lyrics of traditional Calypso music
    are generally quite political in nature,
    but because of strict censorship, are
    cleverly veiled. Calypso lyrics, in fact,
    are so carefully structured on events of
    the day that musical historians can
    date many of the traditional Calypso
    songs based on their lyrical content.

    The Worldwide Popularity of


    CalypsoCalypso
    Music:
    music became something of an
    international craze when Harry Belafonte first
    scored a major U.S. hit in 1956 with "Day-O"
    (the Banana Boat Song), a reworked version of
    a traditional Jamaican mento song. Belafonte
    later became an important figure in the folk
    revival of the 1960s, and although critics say
    his music was really a watered-down version of
    Calypso, he still deserves credit for
    popularizing the genre.

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